Then I woke
up to a rude shock. The plight of the PMETs are still around where many are still
unemployable as they no longer have the skill sets to fit into the workforce.
What is happening? We are trying and planning for the future but forgot about
the Now, the people that are living now and turning obsolete, falling down the
economic and social ladder of the society.
Then I read
the papers and was again filled with hopes and promises of a greater future as
the govt are tweaking the education system again to be the best education
system in the world, to teach and educate our people to be the brightest and best
all rounder, and most important, to be employable again. But the result is in
the future and we will have to wait for that to happen, maybe in SG100 when
Singaporeans will be the happy people, fully employed and leading a good life.
Then I
started thinking, what is the point of the future when the present is a
failure, when our people from our education system are no longer competitive
and no skill sets to even get a job. So, before we embark on another wild goose
chase, another untested experiment, we need to know what is the basis of our
futuristic education system, proven or modelled after some successful model or
just another trial balloon? Because someone took some drugs and hallucinated
that this is the best way to go?
Why don’t we
do the real thing, the logical thing, look at the successfulo working models
and copy what people have done successfully, no need to reinvent the wheel when
the wheel is another trail and error, unproven game of hope? Look at all the
talented people that are coming to Singapore to replace our no skill set PMETs
and young graduates! Does that ring a bell, that these are the products of a
good education system, to be able to produce the graduates and professionals
needed by our industries? If our education system can do the same, there is no
need to keep tweaking and toying around our education system and telling the
people it is really good.
Be real.
Look at the countries that are producing the talents that we need. The most
talents we are getting are from India. This is the hard truth. You can see them
all over Raffle Place, MBFC and Changi Business Park, or is it now called
Chennai Business Park? What does it
mean? It’s so simple. The Indians are doing all the right things in their
education system. No need silly and
expensive foolish ideas. Just get the basics of education right. That is why we
are hiring all the Indian professionals with the right skill sets to replace
our no skill sets PMETS and young graduates. It must be. We can’t be hiring
them if they are no good unless we are so hopelessly stupid. We can’t be
employing fakes and cheats to replace our PMETs right?
So, with
this understanding clear and bright, the solution is very simple. Stop mucking
around with our education system and pretend that we are doing the right thing.
And those people who have no idea of what education of the young is all about
better shut up and don’t pretend they know. Go to the experts, go to the
countries that have done it, and done it well. And no country has done it
better than India. The results showed. Walk around Raffles Place and MBFC and
you will know where the foreign talents came from.
I would
advise the MOE to stop mucking around, send our MOE staff to India to learn
from them. They know best and are producing the best talents that are in our
industries and govt services too. And in the interim, before waiting for the
result to be seen in 20 years or 30 years down the road, quick, send our A
level students to the universities in India for their undergraduate and post
graduate studies. Forget about NUS, NTU, SMU. Forget about the Ivy League
universities in UK or USA. Send them to India, University of Mumbai is one of
the best in India. That would be a good start.
The success
of India’s education is no fluke shot. Look at the number of Indian nationals
helming big corporations in the USA, the UK and also Europe would be enough
testimonies to logically conclude that India is doing the right thing. They are
producing the world’s current and future honchos in the corporate world and do
not need all the silly university rankings to feel good. Their universities are
unranked, many several hundred notches down the ladder of infamy according to
those ranking agencies. But the Indians are soaring to the sky. And this is
real, not magic!
Stop all the
funny tweakings and experiments using our young as guinea pigs. Haven’t we
wasted a whole generation of our graduates with no skill sets from our world
best universities?
Stop smoking.
I too have woken up and seen the reality. We have an education system that
looks good on paper but cannot be eaten, not worth a cent but the students have
to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete the highly flawed system
that at best is dysfunctional, the graduates good to be taxi and crane drivers
or hawkers. We need another 30 years to
produce top finance and banking professionals!!!! What kind of shit is that?
What are we going to do in the meantime? What have we been doing in the last
two or three decades?
Would anyone dare to say that the Indian
graduates we hired are rubbish and we are hiring all the rubbish and to
say what I wrote is rubbish?
